Hypertension and Brain Damage

✍ Scribed by Antonio Coca (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Series: Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on diverse aspects of the relationship between hypertension and brain damage, providing up-to-date information that will be of interest to both clinicians and researchers. After an introductory chapter on epidemiology, the significance of various comorbidities that represent risk factors for brain damage in the context of hypertension is discussed. Detailed consideration is then given to the effects of hypertension on small and large cerebral arteries and the consequences for brain damage. Similarly, the association between hypertension and ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke is fully explored, and the evidence and guidelines regarding reduction of high blood pressure during the acute phase of each form of stroke are summarized. Both the primary and the secondary prevention of stroke are addressed, with presentation of the results of key trials. Readers will also find interesting new perspectives on the roles of different imaging techniques, including CT and functional MRI, in detecting and diagnosing brain damage in patients with hypertension. The closing chapters review the relation of hypertension to subjective and objective cognitive failures and to cognitive decline and dementia.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Epidemiology of Hypertension and Brain Disease....Pages 1-11
Comorbidities Often Associated with Brain Damage in Hypertension: Dyslipidaemia....Pages 13-20
Comorbidities Often Associated with Brain Damage in Hypertension: Salt and Alcohol Intake and Smoking Habits....Pages 21-34
Comorbidities Often Associated with Brain Damage in Hypertension: Diabetes, Coronary Artery Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea....Pages 35-46
Pathophysiology of Brain Damage in Hypertension: Small Vessel Disease....Pages 47-60
Pathophysiology of Subclinical Brain Damage in Hypertension: Large Artery Disease....Pages 61-74
Hypertension and Ischaemic Stroke Subtypes....Pages 75-89
Hypertension and Haemorrhagic Stroke....Pages 91-97
Imaging Techniques for the Detection and Diagnosis of Brain Damage in Hypertension....Pages 99-127
Primary Stroke Prevention....Pages 129-142
Management of High Blood Pressure in Acute Ischaemic Stroke....Pages 143-158
Management of High Blood Pressure in Intracerebral Haemorrhage....Pages 159-171
Secondary Stroke Prevention....Pages 173-182
Hypertension and Subjective Cognitive Failures....Pages 183-195
Hypertension, Cognitive Decline, and Dementia....Pages 197-211

✦ Subjects

Cardiology; Angiology; Neurology; Cardiac Surgery; Neurosurgery